Abstract: Various embodiments relate to systems and devices including self-healing functionality. A system may include a mobile surveillance unit. The mobile surveillance unit may include a power source and a relay coupled to the power source. The mobile surveillance may further include a network including at least one network device coupled to the relay. Moreover, the mobile surveillance unit may include a controller coupled to the network. The controller may be configured to determine whether a network device of the at least one network device is in a non-operative state. The controller may also be configured to, responsive to determining that the network device is in the non-operative state, cause the relay to decouple the network device from the power source for a predetermined time period. Associated methods and mobile units, and swappable units, are also disclosed.

Abstract: Thermal imaging may be used for obtaining measurements of a tribological testing apparatus including a contact temperature. For example a method of calculating a contact temperature may include: introducing a testing sample into a contact zone of a tribological testing apparatus; engaging a testing operation of the tribological testing apparatus; measuring a contact emission of a testing surface of the tribological testing apparatus with an infrared camera; and calculating a contact temperature of the testing sample in the contact zone from the contact emission; wherein the tribological testing apparatus has a carbon coating on the testing surface of the contact zone, wherein the carbon coating has a first infrared emissivity, wherein the testing sample has a second infrared emissivity, and wherein the first infrared emissivity is within +/?20% of the second infrared emissivity.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are improved cross-linked resilin compositions and methods of making these improved compositions. These include new methods of cross-linking resilin compositions, use of polar nonaqueous solvents for adjusting material properties of cross-linked resilin solid compositions, and resilin foam compositions and methods of making the same.

Abstract: A modular boom for attaching to a prime mover and configured to dispense a solution to remove snow and deice a surface. The boom includes a boom shroud having a main body extending from a first end to a second end. The main body of the boom shroud has a substantially wedge shaped portion with an edge configured to engage a snow pile or windrow of snow and cause snow to flow about the wedge shaped portion. The boom shroud includes an opening in a bottom of the main body that provides access to an interior cavity. The modular boom includes a boom pipe positioned within the interior cavity of the boom shroud and has ends that extend beyond the boom shroud. The boom pipe having spaced apart apertures along the length configured to dispense the solution onto the surface. The modular boom also includes first and second end caps configured to support the end of the boom pipe and to connect to the first and second ends of the boom shroud to provide structural rigidity to the modular boom.

Abstract: A method of operating a deicing system remotely, including connecting a control for the deicing system with the deicing system. When the control and the deicing system are connected, the method includes providing functionality for controlling operation of the deicing system, including control of application rates, and managing workflow and operation including job tracking.

Abstract: A power tool includes a housing including an electric motor, a work element, a shaft extending between the housing and the work element, and a clamp coupled to the shaft and extending along a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end. The shaft includes an outer shaft and an inner shaft. The clamp is actuatable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The inner shaft is configured to slide longitudinally within the outer shaft when the clamp is in the unlocked position. The outer shaft and the inner shaft are secured in a desired position when the clamp is in the locked position.

Abstract: A power tool is provided. The power tool includes a housing including an electric motor, a work element, and a drive shaft extending between the electric motor and the work element. The power tool is configured to fit within a cylinder having a diameter no greater than 6 inches with the power tool in a fully assembled state.

Abstract: A power tool includes an electric motor operably coupled to a work element; a terminal configured to interface with a battery to provide power from the battery to the electric motor to drive the work element; a scrench holder, and a scrench, wherein the scrench is detachable from the scrench holder when the battery is detached from the terminal, and wherein the scrench is inaccessible when the battery is coupled to the terminal.

Abstract: A pole saw is provided. The pole saw includes a housing including an electric motor, a work element, and a telescoping pole extending between the electric motor and the work element. The work element includes a bar supporting a cutting element, a sprocket driven by the electric motor and interfaced with the cutting element to drive the cutting element along the bar, and a work element housing disposed around the sprocket and a portion of the bar. The work element housing includes a sidewall and a peripheral wall extending about a periphery of the sidewall. The peripheral wall defines a bar opening through which the bar extends and a plurality of chip ejection ports spaced apart from one another and from the bar opening. All of the plurality of chip ejection ports are disposed on a same side of the bar.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods related to implementing supervised metric learning during a training of a deep neural network model are disclosed herein. In examples, audio input may be received, where the audio input includes a plurality of song fragments from a plurality of songs. For each song fragment, an aligning function may be performed to center the song fragment based on determined beat information, thereby creating a plurality of aligned song fragments. For each song fragment of the plurality of song fragments, an embedding vector may be obtained from the deep neural network. Thus, a batch of aligned song fragments from the plurality of aligned song fragments may be selected, such that a training tuple may be selected. A loss metric may be generated based on the selected training tuple and one or more weights of the deep neural network model may be updated based on the loss metric.

Abstract: A biopsy device includes a body, a needle, a cutter, an analysis area, a valve, and a tissue sample holder. The cutter is movable relative to the needle and in communication with the needle for transporting tissue samples. The analysis area is disposed proximally of the cutter and in communication with the needle to receive a tissue sample cut by the cutter for analysis by a user. The valve is disposed proximally of the analysis area and configured to alternate between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The tissue sample holder is disposed proximally of the valve and fixedly attached to the body. The valve is configured to permit analysis of the sample disposed in the analysis area when the valve is in the closed configuration and to permit the tissue sample to be passed into the tissue sample holder when the valve is in the open configuration configuration.

Abstract: The present invention relates to method for generating a video remix, the method comprising: receiving an input video; selecting at least one excerpt from the input video, wherein an audio signal of the selected excerpt includes at least one onset; determining a plurality of sub-sequences of the at least one excerpt; and rearranging the plurality of sub-sequences according to a predetermined pattern to form the video remix.

Abstract: A modular boom for attaching to a prime mover and configured to dispense a solution to remove snow and deice a surface. The boom includes a boom shroud having a main body extending from a first end to a second end. The main body of the boom shroud has a substantially wedge shaped portion with an edge configured to engage a snow pile or windrow of snow and cause snow to flow about the wedge shaped portion. The boom shroud includes an opening in a bottom of the main body that provides access to an interior cavity. The modular boom includes a boom pipe positioned within the interior cavity of the boom shroud and has ends that extend beyond the boom shroud. The boom pipe having spaced apart apertures along the length configured to dispense the solution onto the surface. The modular boom also includes first and second end caps configured to support the end of the boom pipe and to connect to the first and second ends of the boom shroud to provide structural rigidity to the modular boom.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for automatically predicting and scheduling vehicle repairs. Particularly, a model (such as a natural language processing model, for example) may be trained using historical data relating to prior vehicle DTCs and actions taken to resolve the DTCs. The trained model may then be used to determine multiple potential resolutions to current DTCs provided by a vehicle. The model may also output probabilities associated with the various resolutions. Finally, the model may be configured to consider historical data associated with different types of vehicles than the current vehicle providing the DTC code. This allows for a larger data set to be considered by the model than if the model only considered data associated with the same type of vehicle.

Abstract: A biopsy device includes a body, a needle, a cutter, an analysis area, a valve, and a tissue sample holder. The cutter is movable relative to the needle and in communication with the needle for transporting tissue samples. The analysis area is disposed proximally of the cutter and in communication with the needle to receive a tissue sample cut by the cutter for analysis by a user. The valve is disposed proximally of the analysis area and configured to alternate between an open configuration and a closed configuration. The tissue sample holder is disposed proximally of the valve and fixedly attached to the body. The valve is configured to permit analysis of the sample disposed in the analysis area when the valve is in the closed configuration and to permit the tissue sample to be passed into the tissue sample holder when the valve is in the open configuration.

Abstract: A modular boom for attaching to a prime mover and configured to dispense a solution to remove snow and deice a surface. The boom includes a boom shroud having a main body extending from a first end to a second end. The main body of the boom shroud has a substantially wedge shaped portion with an edge configured to engage a snow pile or windrow of snow and cause snow to flow about the wedge shaped portion. The boom shroud includes an opening in a bottom of the main body that provides access to an interior cavity. The modular boom includes a boom pipe positioned within the interior cavity of the boom shroud and has ends that extend beyond the boom shroud. The boom pipe having spaced apart apertures along the length configured to dispense the solution onto the surface. The modular boom also includes first and second end caps configured to support the end of the boom pipe and to connect to the first and second ends of the boom shroud to provide structural rigidity to the modular boom.

Abstract: Provided herein are mycelium materials and methods for production thereof. In some embodiments, a mycelium material includes: a cultivated mycelium material including one or more masses of branching hyphae, wherein the one or more masses of branching hyphae may be disrupted or pressed and/or a bonding agent may be combined with the cultivated mycelium material. Methods of producing a mycelium material are also provided.

Abstract: Provided herein are mycelium materials and methods for production thereof. In some embodiments, a mycelium material includes: a cultivated mycelium material including one or more masses of branching hyphae, wherein the one or more masses of branching hyphae may be disrupted or pressed and a siloxane or an aliphatic chain compound may be combined with the cultivated mycelium material. Methods of producing a mycelium material are also provided.

Abstract: System and methods directed to identifying music theory labels for audio tracks are described. More specifically, a first training set of audio portions may be generated from a plurality of audio tracks, segments within the plurality of audio tracks being labeled according to a plurality of music theory labels. A deep neural network model may then be trained using the first training set as an input, a first loss function for music theory label identifications of audio portions of the first training set, and a second loss function for segment boundary identifications within the audio portions of the first training set. In examples, the music theory label identifications and the segment boundary identifications are generated by the deep neural network model. A first audio track is received and segment boundary identifications and music theory labels for segments within the first audio track are generated using the deep neural network model.

Abstract: A toilet brush comprises a handle and a brush head. A backbone core is coupled to the handle. An inner support piece is further coupled to the backbone core and to the brush head. The handle further comprises an attachment area and the brush head further includes a scraping feature.